Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-05
REyENUE REDUCTION.
Shall 1t be Made IN he Tax on NecessarisB
or LCXurtes?

Chicago Herald.
What is known SO internal revenue
yields to TIE Treasury OF the United States
some SIP, 600, 900. The bulk of this tax
comes from two items, Of which spirits
and malt liquors furnish $50, 200, 900 and
manufactured tobacco S26, 100000.
There is no dispute in any quarter that the
government enjoys larger revenue than 1t
needs, and after most liberal planning for eX-
pendituIe of the accommodating surplus the pol
iticians are forced 30 declare that legislation is
necessary TO reduce revenue. The declaration
that less tax need be levied ought to be well
come ews TO the people who pay 1t, but while
there IA concurrence OF sentiment upon the
need CT reduction there is difference or opinion
as to the tax which shall first be repealed.
Massachusetts Republicans dominating
q son of Cakes Ames for the governor
ship, point 10 the $4,000, 900 of internal
revenue es the place OF attack. Spend
all you can of the money you have unnec-
essarily taken from the people, and if
there's anything left "to meet further
question OF 2 treasury surplus we recon-
mend such reduction of internal revenue
taxation SIS he eXigenCieS OF the case
may require" That is the Massachu-
setts plan. the Randall plan, the Virginia
Democracy plan, the plan devised for the
maintenance Of q mode of taxation which
for the dollar it puts in the treasury
puts numerous dollars IN the pockets
of class OF individuals who are the
sole benehCiaries OF the protective
system. II is, in a word, the plan to
make whisky free in order that clothing,
fuel, lumber, iron, glass, every necessity
Of existence, may be kept dear. The
morality OF Massachusetts aud the eX-
quisitely tender conscience OF mill-owners
who, SIS a rule, are pew-holders, may
| discover momentarY qualm in bringing
the poison Of alcohol within reach of even
parper if be can command penny, but
better that vice should riot in free rum
| than that g God-fearing manufacturer
OF woolens should be deprived Of his OPP
portunity OF ieecing men and women and
| CHILDREN, their fellow creatures, VINO IL a
rigorous climate must go clothed or
! perish.
The reTenue of the government from
customs is 5l6l, 600, 600. Il arises from
tsr2E laid upon more than 41S2 different
articles paying an average rate Of over &c
per cent, which, as Mr. Manning, then
Secretary OF the Treasury, pointed out 9
year ego, is but % per cent. less than the
| highest rate of the war period. This l6
per cent represents something more than
the tax which the government lays upon
the people. Nearly two hundred millions
were paid under it at the custom houses,
but what unnumbered millions sre paid
to manufacturers who are enabled by
protective tariff laws TO fix prices of
their products in the home market?
The New York Democrats, who cannO
be supposed to approach in moral gran
deur the lofty heights attained by Senate
Hoar and Oakes Ames' son, have consid
cred this subject of taxation and arrived
st conclusion altogether different from
that reached in Massachusetts by tn
} party OF free whisky and more tariff. Tn
New Workers declare:
The unnecessary federal taxation Of the las
fiscal year exceeded $1,000 eco. Unnecessar
} taxation IS unjust taxation. Therefore tn
/ emocracy OF New York demand that feder;
!. taxation be strbightp ay reduced by g sum n
l less than Sl00,000 co year, and also respec
2 fully urge upon Congress that a measure sha
: be sdcp:ed which VIII, in The language OF ii
Presidents inaugural address, relieve Il
people from unnecessary taxation, having q ul
. regard to the interests of CAPITAL invested n
= workingmen employed in American industries
/ The taxes TO be first reduced or altogether 7
I moved are those on imported raw material
. which now assist and promote foreign compet
! tion with gu selves in our own markets ar